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.
ANTON CHEKHOVA 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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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 happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Man is what he believes.
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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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