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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.

Anton Chekhov

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Goal Greatness Happiness Life Meaning Ourselves Personal Wisdom
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Adventure Beautiful Body Conscious Life Live Oneself
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Lose Love Reason Try Yourself
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Myself People Reading Short Work
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Correction Problem Solve State Writing
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Body Freedom Health Holy Human Intelligence Manifestation Talent Violence
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Afraid Artist Deep Desire Hope
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Conception Ourselves Perspective World
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Happiness Notice People Summer Winter

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