My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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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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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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