You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOVEverything 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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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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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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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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