It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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