Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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.
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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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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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