What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
ANTON CHEKHOVI expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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 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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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