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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.

Anton Chekhov

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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Author Beginning End Experience Lying Ourselves Story Writing
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Myself People Reading Short Work
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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Beautiful Character Dress Face People Thinking Way
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Existence Judgement Mortal Ourselves Person Suitable
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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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Goodness Guest Humor Meet People Sincere Speed
Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Forever Important One Liner Poet Writing
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Body Freedom Health Holy Human Intelligence Manifestation Talent Violence
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Experience Feeling Himself Love Normal Representation State
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Death Different Man Philosophy Wisdom
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Honesty Job Realization Start Work Yourself
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better Himself Man
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
Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Authority Believe Lying Talk Yourself
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself

You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.

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