Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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