When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
ANTON CHEKHOVKnowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
ANTON CHEKHOVThey say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
ANTON CHEKHOVBrevity – the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOVPerhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
ANTON CHEKHOVLife is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
ANTON CHEKHOVJust as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
ANTON CHEKHOVLying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOVNothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy 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.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite only of what is important and eternal.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy 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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