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.
ANTON CHEKHOVExquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use 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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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 teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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