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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

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Break Glass Light Moon Shine
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Alcohol Bed Death Lying
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
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
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Eyes God Goodness Judgment Success
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work
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
It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Flow Freedom Himself Old Person Soul Writing
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
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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Brain God Lunch Mouth Respect
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Illusion Imagination Truth Worth
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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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic
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
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Lose Love Reason Try Yourself

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