There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
ANTON CHEKHOVHe is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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