Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Man is what he believes.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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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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