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.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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