I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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