There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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Man is what he believes.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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