“It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
Source: Morality for Beautiful Girls
“How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.”
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904Related quotes
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Prelude to Pt. I, st. 7
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
Context: Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how;
Everything is happy now,
Everything is upward striving;
'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true
As for grass to be green or skies to be blue,—
'Tis the natural way of living:
Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake;
And the eyes forget the tears they have shed,
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache;
The soul partakes the season's youth,
And the sulphurous rifts of passion and woe
Lie deep 'neath a silence pure and smooth,
Like burnt-out craters healed with snow.