For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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