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

Anton Chekhov

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Flow Freedom Himself Old Person Soul Writing
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Behavior Happiness Oneself
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
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Afraid Artist Deep Desire Hope
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Curiosity Marriage Myself Observation People
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Feeling Knowledge Language Yourself
Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Forever Important One Liner Poet Writing
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Cruelty Ego Happiness People Seperate Understand Unity White
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
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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Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
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
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself

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