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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

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
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Beautiful Character Dress Face People Thinking Way
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
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
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Break Fingers Poet Writing Yourself
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Alone Essence Grave Live Lying Myself
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
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
Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
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
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Adventure Beautiful Body Conscious Life Live Oneself
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

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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