I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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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 our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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