In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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 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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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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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