If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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