You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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 all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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