Man is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOVI don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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