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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.

Anton Chekhov

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Body Freedom Health Holy Human Intelligence Manifestation Talent Violence
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Adventure Beautiful Body Conscious Life Live Oneself
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Illusion Imagination Truth Worth
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
When 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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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Flower Glorious Human Life Meadow Ourselves
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking
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
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
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Eyes God Goodness Judgment Success
Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Authority Believe Lying Talk Yourself
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Alone Mad Marriage Togetherness Woman
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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