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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

Anton Chekhov

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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Goal Greatness Happiness Life Meaning Ourselves Personal Wisdom
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
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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Easy Feeling Happiness Impossible Man Silence
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Alone Mad Marriage Togetherness Woman
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Eyes God Goodness Judgment Success
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
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

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

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