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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

It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Animal Elephant Failure Feeling Myself Notice
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Alone Essence Grave Live Lying Myself
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Black Color Deep Life Mourning Myself
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Happiness Notice People Summer Winter
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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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
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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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
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
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
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
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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Experience Feeling Himself Love Normal Representation State
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
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
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
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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Cruelty Ego Happiness People Seperate Understand Unity White
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Age Education Learning Time Wisdom

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