I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOVFaith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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 to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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