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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

Anton Chekhov

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Happiness Notice People Summer Winter
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
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
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Problem Question Simplicity Solution Solve
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Dog Goodness Guilty Person
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Honesty Job Realization Start Work Yourself
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Forever Important One Liner Poet Writing
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
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
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Myself People Reading Short Work
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Death Different Man Philosophy Wisdom

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