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.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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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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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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