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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
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
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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Death Difference Doctor Lawyer Perspective Rob Yourself
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
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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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
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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Myself People Reading Short Work
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
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Happiness Notice People Summer Winter
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Lose Love Reason Try Yourself
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking

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