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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Anton Chekhov

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Afraid Artist Deep Desire Hope
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Love Oneself Relationship Remember
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
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
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
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Easy Feeling Happiness Impossible Man Silence
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Illusion Imagination Truth Worth
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Feeling Heart Heart Broken Marvelous Myself 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
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
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Adventure Beautiful Body Conscious Life Live Oneself
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
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Death Difference Doctor Lawyer Perspective Rob Yourself
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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Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
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
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
What a delight it is to respect people!
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Delight People Respect
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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Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Alcohol Bed Death Lying
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Appearance Character Impression Judgment Sign

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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