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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Appearance Character Impression Judgment Sign
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
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Culture Fortunate Himself Man
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
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
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
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
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
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
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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