If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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