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.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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