Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
ANTON CHEKHOVJust as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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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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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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