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.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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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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