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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

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
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Alone Mad Marriage Togetherness Woman
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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Beautiful Dignity Earth Exception Human Life Ourselves Purpose
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
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Believe Impossible Life People Trust Yourself
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Goal Greatness Happiness Life Meaning Ourselves Personal Wisdom
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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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
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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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
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
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Foolish Life Meaning Silly Strain Strive Stupidity
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man

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