Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe more refined one is, the more unhappy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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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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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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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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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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