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.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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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 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 teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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