They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
ANTON CHEKHOVThree 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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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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