You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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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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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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