Anton Chekhov Quotes, Aptitude Quotes, Facts Quotes

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

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Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

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If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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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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Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly.

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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

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To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

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Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

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A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

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It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

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Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

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