Brevity – the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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