There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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