Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Anton ChekhovIn Moscow you can sit in an enormous restaurant where you don’t know anybody and where nobody knows you, and you don’t feel all the same that you’re a stranger. And here you know everybody and everybody knows you, and you’re a stranger... and a lonely stranger.
Anton ChekhovNot 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....
Anton ChekhovWhere is the law that says people should do as they please?
Anton ChekhovAnd it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!
Anton Chekhov[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers
Anton ChekhovTag: shame
La auténtica felicidad es impensable sin la soledad. El ángel caído engañó a Dios posiblemente porque quiso estar solo, soledad que no conocen los ángeles.
Anton ChekhovFor God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
Anton ChekhovTag: advice
...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
Anton ChekhovTag: writing-advice
we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.
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