The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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