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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Anton Chekhov

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
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Break Glass Light Moon Shine
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
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
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Appearance Character Impression Judgment Sign
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Artist Guess Observation Select
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Body Freedom Health Holy Human Intelligence Manifestation Talent Violence
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
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
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Illusion Imagination Truth Worth
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

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