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.
ANTON CHEKHOVI have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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