What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
ANTON CHEKHOVThree 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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