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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Anton Chekhov

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Goodness Guest Humor Meet People Sincere Speed
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
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
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Alcohol Bed Death Lying
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
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
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
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
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
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better Himself Man
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself

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