Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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