I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite only of what is important and eternal.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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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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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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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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