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“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!”
― Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
― Anton Chekhov

“The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.”
― Anton Chekhov

“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.”
― Anton Chekhov

“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...”
― Anton Chekhov

“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.”
― Anton Chekhov, About Love and Other Stories

“Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other”
― Anton Chekhov

“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”
― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

“I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.”
― Tom Stoppard

“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

“When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

“Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

“I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.”
― Tom Stoppard

“You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.
We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Pimeduses ei ole kättesaamatuid kaugusi ega hirmutavaid sügavusi. On ainult see, mida saame käega katsuda. Kõik on lihtne ja siinsamas.”
― Karl Ristikivi

“See on erilaadne ilu mõningate vanade naiste juures, hingestatud, peaaegu abstraktne, mis ilmsiks saab nende väheste juures, kes viimaks on leppinud sellega, et nad ei ole enam naised, vaid ainult inimesed.”
― Karl Ristikivi

“Elava inimese nägu on palju raskem meeles pidada, sest see on alati liikuv ja muutlik, mispärast ka kaks pilti ühest ja samast inimesest ei ole kunagi päris sarnased.”
― Karl Ristikivi

“Mis tähendavad nimed! Nimed on ainult meelespidamise vahend, muud midagi. On inimesi, kel on numbrite mälu, ja need muudavad kõik nimed numbriteks, et neid paremini meeles pidada. Mõni nimi jääb paremini meelde ja siis püüame ennast ja teisi veenda, et see just ongi õige nimi. Sellepärast on ka Jumalal nii palju nimesid.”
― Karl Ristikivi

“Ma usun neid ridu kirjutades üsna kindlasti, et ma armastasin Teid juba enne meie tutvumist, ainult et ma veel ei teadnud, et just Teie see olete, keda ma armastan.”
― Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Ma armastasin sakslast

“Võib-olla ei peaks kunagi hommikul seda lugema, mis südaöösel kirjutatud: hommik ja südaöö ei mõista teineteist või nad mõistavad võõriti.”
― Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Ma armastasin sakslast

“Sündimine ei tee surma olematuks, need on mõlemad kogu aeg olnud üksteise kõrval, algmisest saadik. Sündimine ei ole midagi muud kui surma algus. Keegi sureb alati, me kõik sureme alati.”
― Karl Ristikivi, Hingede öö

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
― Carter Crocker

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh