Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
ANTON CHEKHOVWe learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Man is what he believes.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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