A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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 role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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