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

Anton Chekhov

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
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
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
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
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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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
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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Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Break Glass Light Moon Shine
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
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
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Afraid Fools Himself Thinking Writing

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