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.
ANTON CHEKHOVI can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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