It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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