I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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