I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo 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.
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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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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