I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
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Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why w...
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He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thr...
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
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When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible bo...
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart st...
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If you cry 'Forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite
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Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thou...
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He who constantly swims in the ocean loves dry land.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation...
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
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For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or some...
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When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists e...
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Tell mother that however dogs and samovars might behave themselves, winter comes after summer, old age after youth, and misfortune follows hap...
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external s...
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you'll eat ...
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It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why...
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After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will rema...
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I'm in mourning for my life.
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Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of t...
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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You ask 'What is life?' That is the same as asking 'What is a carrot?' A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.
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