Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
ANTON CHEKHOVWisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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