You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOVMoney, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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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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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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