What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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