You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOVA good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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 illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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