When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
ANTON CHEKHOVCalculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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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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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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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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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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