A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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