You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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