Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVThey say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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