Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOVWe learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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