Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOVThree 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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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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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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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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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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