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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.

Anton Chekhov

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Experience Feeling Himself Love Normal Representation State
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Brain God Lunch Mouth Respect
This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Flower Glorious Human Life Meadow Ourselves
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
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking
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
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
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Illusion Imagination Truth Worth
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
In 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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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
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
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.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
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 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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