The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite only of what is important and eternal.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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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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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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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Man is what he believes.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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