People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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