People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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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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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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