There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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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 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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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