The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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