Brevity – the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOVExquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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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 teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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