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.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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