An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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