The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOVDo silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Man is what he believes.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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