There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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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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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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