An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
ANTON CHEKHOVWomen can’t forgive failure.
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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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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes 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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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