People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you want to work on your art, work on your life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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