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.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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