Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
ANTON CHEKHOVMedicine 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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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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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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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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