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.
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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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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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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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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