If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOVLife is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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