Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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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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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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