My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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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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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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