It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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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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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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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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