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.
ANTON CHEKHOVNothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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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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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Man is what he believes.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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