Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
ANTON CHEKHOVThis life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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