The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite only of what is important and eternal.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Man is what he believes.
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