What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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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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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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