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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.

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
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Curiosity Marriage Myself Observation People
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
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
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
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
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
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
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
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Behavior Happiness Oneself
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Day End Expectation Myself Student
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.

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