You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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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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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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