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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 Chekhov

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
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
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Foolish Life Meaning Silly Strain Strive Stupidity
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Dog Goodness Guilty Person
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself
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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Death Difference Doctor Lawyer Perspective Rob Yourself
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
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
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve 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
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Break Fingers Poet Writing Yourself
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Myself People Reading Short Work
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person

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.

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