Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo 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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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