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.
ANTON CHEKHOVI have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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