"My holy of holies is the human body." — Anton Chekhov

"My holy of holies is the human body."

— Anton Chekhov

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246 Quotes by Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov has 246 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with…
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you…
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every…
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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