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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

Anton Chekhov

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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Body Freedom Health Holy Human Intelligence Manifestation Talent Violence
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Illusion Imagination Truth Worth
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Appearance Character Impression Judgment Sign
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Honesty Job Realization Start Work Yourself
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Black Color Deep Life Mourning Myself
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Behavior Happiness Oneself
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better Himself Man
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
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Break Glass Light Moon Shine
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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Myself People Reading Short Work
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
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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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
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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Experience Feeling Himself Love Normal Representation State
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Earth Heart Snow Spring Yourself

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