Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
ANTON CHEKHOVEverything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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