There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
ANTON CHEKHOV
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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