Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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