The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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