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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Anton Chekhov

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
A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Follow Friendship Man Stage Woman
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Love Oneself Relationship Remember
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
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
To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Break exchange Future Immortal Instrument Lost Prediction Strange Worth
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Body Freedom Health Holy Human Intelligence Manifestation Talent Violence
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

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