You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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