Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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