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.
ANTON CHEKHOVEverything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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 holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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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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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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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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