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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.
Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.
One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.
A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....
If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.
I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it
..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.
I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.
In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.