I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere 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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Perhaps 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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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 you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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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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