"When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound."

-- Anton Chekhov

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“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
“The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field”
“If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.”
“The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.”

Source : James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.163
“Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.”
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

Source : 1859 Self-Help, ch.11.
“Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.”
“The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you werenâ€™t very lovable.”

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