If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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