Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
ANTON CHEKHOVPerhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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