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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Anton Chekhov

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Alone Essence Grave Live Lying Myself
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
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
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
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
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
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
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
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Honesty Job Realization Start Work Yourself
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
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
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Appearance Character Impression Judgment Sign
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Follow Friendship Man Stage Woman

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