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.
ANTON CHEKHOVWithout a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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