There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOVWithout a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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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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