Women can’t forgive failure.
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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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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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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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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