The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn 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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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