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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.

Anton Chekhov

This 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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Flower Glorious Human Life Meadow Ourselves
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Age Education Learning Time Wisdom
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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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Aptitude Born Fact Faith Spirit Talent Yourself
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
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
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Experience Feeling Himself Love Normal Representation State
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent
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

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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