Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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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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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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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