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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

Anton Chekhov

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
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
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
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 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
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better Himself Man
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
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
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
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Clothes Himself Person Rate Soul Thinking
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

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