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

Anton Chekhov

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
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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Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
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
This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Flower Glorious Human Life Meadow Ourselves
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Goodness Guest Humor Meet People Sincere Speed
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Alone Mad Marriage Togetherness Woman
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
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Curiosity Marriage Myself Observation People
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth

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

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