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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

Anton Chekhov

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
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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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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Beautiful Dignity Earth Exception Human Life Ourselves Purpose
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
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
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Alcohol Bed Death Lying

For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

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