The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
ANTON CHEKHOVExquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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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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