Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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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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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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