Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
ANTON CHEKHOVA woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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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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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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 observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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