The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOVEven while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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