Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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