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.
ANTON CHEKHOVJust as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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