There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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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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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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