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.
ANTON CHEKHOVEvery person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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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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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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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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