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Anton Chekhov Quotes: Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
         

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.


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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.



What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.



People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.



Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.



When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.





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