The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOVHe is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else 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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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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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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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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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