When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer 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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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