Man is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen 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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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