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.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen 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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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