The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOVA good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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You 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.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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