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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov

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
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Dog Goodness Guilty Person
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
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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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
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
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Follow Friendship Man Stage Woman
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
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
What a delight it is to respect people!
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Delight People Respect
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Feeling Knowledge Language Yourself
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
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself

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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