Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
ANTON CHEKHOVThey say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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