The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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