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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.

Anton Chekhov

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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God Government Himself Return Right
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Live Love Myself Neck Stone
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Foolish Life Meaning Silly Strain Strive Stupidity
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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Myself People Reading Short Work
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Goodness Guest Humor Meet People Sincere Speed
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Eyes God Goodness Judgment Success
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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Beautiful Dignity Earth Exception Human Life Ourselves Purpose
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
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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Feeling Heart Heart Broken Marvelous Myself Thinking
There 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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Flow Freedom Himself Old Person Soul Writing
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Destruction Hate Small Vice World

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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