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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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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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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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