Write only of what is important and eternal.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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.
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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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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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