What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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