Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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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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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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