Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
ANTON CHEKHOVTry to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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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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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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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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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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