When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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