Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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