The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
ANTON CHEKHOVI observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Man is what he believes.
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