Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
ANTON CHEKHOVNothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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