When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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