We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOVWithout a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Man is what he believes.
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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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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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