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.
ANTON CHEKHOVThis life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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