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

Anton Chekhov

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
Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Love Oneself Relationship Remember
For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Brain God Lunch Mouth Respect
A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Follow Friendship Man Stage Woman
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
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
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Clothes Himself Person Rate Soul Thinking
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Feeling Heart Heart Broken Marvelous Myself Thinking
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
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
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
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf

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