Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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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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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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