Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVEverything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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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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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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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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