Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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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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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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