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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.

Anton Chekhov

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Earth Heart Snow Spring Yourself
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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Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Break exchange Future Immortal Instrument Lost Prediction Strange Worth
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Author Beginning End Experience Lying Ourselves Story Writing
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Artist Guess Observation Select
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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Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
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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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Day End Expectation Myself Student
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature

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