Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOVKnowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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