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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.

Anton Chekhov

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Afraid Fools Himself Thinking Writing
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Foolish Life Meaning Silly Strain Strive Stupidity
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Earth Life Nature Tree
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Break exchange Future Immortal Instrument Lost Prediction Strange Worth
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
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
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
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work 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
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
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man
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 short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Better Enough Myself Reason Story

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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