If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
ANTON CHEKHOVLife is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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