We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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