My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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