If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOVWe learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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When 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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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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