It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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