The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
ANTON CHEKHOVLet us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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