My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Man is what he believes.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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