Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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