The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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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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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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