Dreams Quote by Anton Chekhov

““We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams.””

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“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but why lie to the people? Why assure the people they are right in their ignorance and that their crude prejudices are sacred truth? Can any splendid future possibly justify this basr lie? Were I a politician,…

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had…

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“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,…

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Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

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While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you…

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“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but…

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“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,…

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“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.”

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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are…

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“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”

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“Once we become sensitive to dreams, we discover that every dynamic in a dream is manifesting itself in some way in our practical lives”

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“Now you’re wet. You’re so wet you’re leaking down your ass. You’re soaking my pillow. I don’t think I’m ever washing it. I want…

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“Not that it matters, when you dream, there's no outside or in. Your mind is an unimaginable bloom. A willow catkin as big as the moon. With billions of anthers, shaking pollen like stars. It may seem strange, but in this boundless place --- You are not alone.”

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Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel !

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The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…

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It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

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“As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth.”

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