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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

Anton Chekhov

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
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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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
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
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
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
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Flower Glorious Human Life Meadow Ourselves
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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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Experience Feeling Himself Love Normal Representation State
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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Foolish Life Meaning Silly Strain Strive Stupidity
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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Beautiful Dignity Earth Exception Human Life Ourselves Purpose
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves

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