If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOVNot 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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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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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.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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