To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf 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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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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