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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

Anton Chekhov

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Existence Judgement Mortal Ourselves Person Suitable
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Myself People Reading Short Work
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Cruelty Ego Happiness People Seperate Understand Unity White
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Alcohol Bed Death Lying
A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Follow Friendship Man Stage Woman
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

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