Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
ANTON CHEKHOVMoney, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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