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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

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Break Glass Light Moon Shine
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Myself People Reading Short Work
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
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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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Happiness Notice People Summer Winter
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Life Love Myself Need Yourself
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
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
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin 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
A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Follow Friendship Man Stage Woman

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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