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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.

Anton Chekhov

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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Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Black Color Deep Life Mourning Myself
When 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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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
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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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
Women can’t forgive failure.
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Failure Forgiveness One Liner Woman
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Break Fingers Poet Writing Yourself
For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Brain God Lunch Mouth Respect
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing

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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