I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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