There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
ANTON CHEKHOVMan is what he believes.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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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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