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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Anton Chekhov

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Myself People Reading Short Work
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Lose Love Reason Try Yourself
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Author Beginning End Experience Lying Ourselves Story Writing
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man
To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Break exchange Future Immortal Instrument Lost Prediction Strange Worth
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Clothes Himself Person Rate Soul Thinking
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Action Discussion Hero Himself Mindset State
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Dog Goodness Guilty Person

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