If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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