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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Anton Chekhov

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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Live Love Myself Neck Stone
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
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Age Education Learning Time Wisdom
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
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
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
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
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
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Break Fingers Poet Writing Yourself
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Break Glass Light Moon Shine
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
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better Himself Man
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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