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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Anton Chekhov

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Alone Mad Marriage Togetherness Woman
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Day End Expectation Myself Student
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
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
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
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
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Break Glass Light Moon Shine
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
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 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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Cruelty Ego Happiness People Seperate Understand Unity White
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
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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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
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
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity

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