People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
ANTON CHEKHOVI expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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 secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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