I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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