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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

Anton Chekhov

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Afraid Fools Himself Thinking Writing
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
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
What a delight it is to respect people!
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Delight People Respect
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Afraid Artist Deep Desire Hope
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
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
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
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
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
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
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Goal Greatness Happiness Life Meaning Ourselves Personal 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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Live Love Myself Neck Stone
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women

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