People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Man is what he believes.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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