A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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