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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Anton Chekhov

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Easy Feeling Happiness Impossible Man Silence
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
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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Break exchange Future Immortal Instrument Lost Prediction Strange Worth
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
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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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking
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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Myself People Reading Short Work
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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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
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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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Cruelty Ego Happiness People Seperate Understand Unity White
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
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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God Government Himself Return Right

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

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