It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
ANTON CHEKHOVNot one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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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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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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