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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

Anton Chekhov

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Adventure Beautiful Body Conscious Life Live Oneself
Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Love Oneself Relationship Remember
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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Author Beginning End Experience Lying Ourselves Story Writing
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Honesty Job Realization Start Work Yourself
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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Problem Question Simplicity Solution Solve
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
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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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Dog Goodness Guilty Person
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
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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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice

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