Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOVI expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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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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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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 ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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