The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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