Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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