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Everything 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.

Anton Chekhov

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Boredom Lying People Secret
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Alcohol Bed Death Lying
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Live Love Myself Neck Stone
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Death Difference Doctor Lawyer Perspective Rob Yourself
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Destruction Hate Small Vice World
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Difference God People Philosophy Religious
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Black Color Deep Life Mourning Myself
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Discipline Goodness People Precise
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Flow Freedom Himself Old Person Soul Writing

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