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.
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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Man is what he believes.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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