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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.

Anton Chekhov

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
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
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
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
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
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
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
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
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Break Fingers Poet Writing Yourself
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
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
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
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
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent

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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