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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

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
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
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
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
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
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
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Black Color Deep Life Mourning Myself
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 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
Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Authority Believe Lying Talk Yourself
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
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
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
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
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

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