There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOVI observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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