If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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