The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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 aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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