If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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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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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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.
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Man is what he believes.
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