I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
ANTON CHEKHOVI kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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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 there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Man is what he believes.
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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