You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
ANTON CHEKHOVExquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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