If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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 I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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