We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOVFor God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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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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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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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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