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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

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Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?

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The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

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My holy of holies is the human body.

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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

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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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In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

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Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

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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 we must hang on to one another.

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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

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The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

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