It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
ANTON CHEKHOVLife is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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