Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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