The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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