Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVAn artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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