The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen 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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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