Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOVDo 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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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Man is what he believes.
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