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.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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