If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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 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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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 confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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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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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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