Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Man is what he believes.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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