Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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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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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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