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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

Anton Chekhov

You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
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
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Feeling Knowledge Language Yourself
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
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
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent
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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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself

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