When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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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.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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