When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat a delight it is to respect people!
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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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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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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