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

Anton Chekhov

You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
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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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
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
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
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Artist Guess Observation Select
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
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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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Adventure Beautiful Body Conscious Life Live Oneself
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Aptitude Born Fact Faith Spirit Talent Yourself
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin

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