If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOVI have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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