It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Man is what he believes.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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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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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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