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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Anton Chekhov

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
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
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Death Difference Doctor Lawyer Perspective Rob Yourself
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
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
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
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
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Existence Judgement Mortal Ourselves Person Suitable
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
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
What a delight it is to respect people!
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Delight People Respect

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