The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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 secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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 more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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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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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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