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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

Anton Chekhov

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
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
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
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Lose Love Reason Try Yourself
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Experience Feeling Himself Love Normal Representation State
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Break Fingers Poet Writing Yourself
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
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
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Appreciation Fruit Learning Ourselves Time Tree
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Problem Question Simplicity Solution Solve
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
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

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