Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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 secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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