Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
ANTON CHEKHOVWithout a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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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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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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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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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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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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