Write only of what is important and eternal.
ANTON CHEKHOVI kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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