Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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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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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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