Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from 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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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