The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOVWithout a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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