There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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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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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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