To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
ANTON CHEKHOVA good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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