I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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