"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
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"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."
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"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something."
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"Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life."
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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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"The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly."
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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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"What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself."
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"Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way."
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"People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves."
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"Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty."
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"We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers."
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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 the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself."
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"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
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"There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality."
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"Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds."
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"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
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"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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"If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence."
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"People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—"
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