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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

Anton Chekhov

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
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
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
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Aptitude Born Fact Faith Spirit Talent Yourself
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man
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
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
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
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
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
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
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
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
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Problem Question Simplicity Solution Solve

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