Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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