We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOVBetter to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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