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.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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