Man is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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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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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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