I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
ANTON CHEKHOVOnly during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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