Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling … - Anton Chekhov

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I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

Anton Chekhov

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

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Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

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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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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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Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

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JoBeth Williams

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

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Jenny Holzer

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

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William Bastone

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell.

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G. M. Trevelyan

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

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