The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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