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.
ANTON CHEKHOVHe who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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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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