Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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