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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

Anton Chekhov

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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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
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
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Earth Life Nature Tree
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
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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Beautiful Dignity Earth Exception Human Life Ourselves Purpose
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Death Different Man Philosophy Wisdom
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
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Aptitude Born Fact Faith Spirit Talent Yourself
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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect

For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

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