In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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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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