Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOV
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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