Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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