Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
ANTON CHEKHOVAny idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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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.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without 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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