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 CHEKHOVWhat a delight it is to respect people!
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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