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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

Anton Chekhov

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
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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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Alone Essence Grave Live Lying Myself
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
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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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
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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Flow Freedom Himself Old Person Soul Writing
For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Brain God Lunch Mouth Respect
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Day End Expectation Myself Student
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
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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Appreciation Fruit Learning Ourselves Time Tree
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

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