I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Man is what he believes.
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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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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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 wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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