The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
ANTON CHEKHOVEvery person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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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.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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