I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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