Brevity – the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe 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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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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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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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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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