Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere 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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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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