The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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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 more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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