Man is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOVEverything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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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 aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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