Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVAn artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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