I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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