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.
ANTON CHEKHOVI expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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