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.
ANTON CHEKHOVDo you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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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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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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