If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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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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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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