There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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