Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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 unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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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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