Man is what he believes.
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 unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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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.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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