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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Anton Chekhov

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Appearance Character Impression Judgment Sign
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Authority Believe Lying Talk Yourself
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
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
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Earth Heart Snow Spring Yourself
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Easy Feeling Happiness Impossible Man Silence
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Flow Freedom Himself Old Person Soul Writing
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Difficult Easy Life Philosopher

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

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