If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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