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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.

Anton Chekhov

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
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
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Alone Essence Grave Live Lying Myself
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
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
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
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Afraid Fools Himself Thinking Writing
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself
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
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
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Feeling Knowledge Language 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
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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Beautiful Character Dress Face People Thinking Way
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Aptitude Born Fact Faith Spirit Talent Yourself
This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Flower Glorious Human Life Meadow Ourselves

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