If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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