Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Man is what he believes.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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