Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn 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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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