People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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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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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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