| Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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| If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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| If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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| There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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| People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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| In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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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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- Anton Chekhov |
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| Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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| Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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| Man is what he believes. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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| One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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| We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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