Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVNot one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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 secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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