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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

Anton Chekhov

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Afraid Artist Deep Desire Hope
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Feeling Knowledge Language Yourself
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
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
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Myself People Reading Short Work
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Death Different Man Philosophy Wisdom
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Eyes God Goodness Judgment Success
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person

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