The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
ANTON CHEKHOVWithout a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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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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