Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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