If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVTry to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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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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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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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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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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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.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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