The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy 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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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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