Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOVLife on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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