Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVExquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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