To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Man is what he believes.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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