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Quotes by Dramatist
"MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. They will forget.VERSHININ. Yes. They will forget. That is our fate, you can't do anything about it. The things which to us seem serious, significant, very important, - the time will come - they will be forgotten or they will seem of no consequence."
37
"All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth."
37
"Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive."
37
"Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key."
37
"Philosophy cannot be taught, it is the application of the sciences to truth."
37
"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
37
"I am not young enough to know everything."
37
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
37
"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
37
"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
37
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
37
"Man is many things, but he is not rational."
37
"You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you."
37
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
37
"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."
36
"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
36
"Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree."
Man,
36
"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
36
"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."
36
"Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye."
36
"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."
36
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