Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOVDon’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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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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