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.
ANTON CHEKHOVWe shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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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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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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