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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov

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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Death Difference Doctor Lawyer Perspective Rob Yourself
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Afraid Fools Himself Thinking Writing
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Earth Life Nature Tree
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
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better Himself Man
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
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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Brain God Lunch Mouth Respect
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Problem Question Simplicity Solution Solve
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Honesty Job Realization Start Work Yourself
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Lose Love Reason Try Yourself
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
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

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