There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo 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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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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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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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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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