It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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