Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
~ Anton Chekhov
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
~ Anton Chekhov
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
~ Anton Chekhov
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I don’t miss my youth. I’m glad I had one, but I wouldn’t like to start over.
~ Umberto Eco
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
~ Anton Chekhov
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed.
~ Umberto Eco
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Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.
~ György Lukács
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used “to tell” at all.
~ Umberto Eco
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