If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
ANTON CHEKHOVDo silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Man is what he believes.
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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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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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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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