I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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