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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.

Anton Chekhov

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Afraid Artist Deep Desire Hope
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
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Day End Expectation Myself Student
Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Forever Important One Liner Poet Writing
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
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
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
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
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
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
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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Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
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
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Existence Judgement Mortal Ourselves Person Suitable

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