When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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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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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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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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