Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOVOnly during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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