You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Man is what he believes.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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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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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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