Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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