The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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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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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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