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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

Anton Chekhov

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Forever Important One Liner Poet Writing
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Earth Life Nature Tree
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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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
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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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
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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Follow Friendship Man Stage Woman
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent
You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Love Oneself Relationship Remember

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