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We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 23, 1888)

 

Anton Chekhov

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Don't let your heart depend on things
That ornament life in a fleeting way!
He who possesses, let him learn to lose,
He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

 

Friedrich von Schiller