You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOVExquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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 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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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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 world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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