When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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