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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
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
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
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
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
What a delight it is to respect people!
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Delight People Respect
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Culture Fortunate Himself Man
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Author Beginning End Experience Lying Ourselves Story Writing
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
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Death Difference Doctor Lawyer Perspective Rob Yourself
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
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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Existence Judgement Mortal Ourselves Person Suitable
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
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
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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Break exchange Future Immortal Instrument Lost Prediction Strange Worth

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