Write only of what is important and eternal.
ANTON CHEKHOVPerhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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