Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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