If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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My 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.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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