You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
ANTON CHEKHOVA good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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