I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
ANTON CHEKHOVLet 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Do 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.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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