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.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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 holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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