To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
ANTON CHEKHOVLife is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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