Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOVLying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Man is what he believes.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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