The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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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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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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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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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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