The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen 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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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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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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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