There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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