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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

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
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
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work
You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
Do 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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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Black Color Deep Life Mourning Myself
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
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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Break exchange Future Immortal Instrument Lost Prediction Strange Worth
There 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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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
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
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Alone Essence Grave Live Lying Myself
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Appearance Character Impression Judgment Sign
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Problem Question Simplicity Solution Solve
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person

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