There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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