Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
ANTON CHEKHOVMedicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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