I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOVFaith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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