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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Anton Chekhov

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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Beautiful Dignity Earth Exception Human Life Ourselves Purpose
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Afraid Fools Himself Thinking Writing
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
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
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
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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Body Freedom Health Holy Human Intelligence Manifestation Talent Violence
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
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Difference God People Philosophy Religious
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Clothes Himself Person Rate Soul Thinking
Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Action Discussion Hero Himself Mindset State
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Break Fingers Poet Writing Yourself
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves

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