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.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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