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.
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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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