If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOVLying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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