I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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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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