People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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