Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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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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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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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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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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