Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
ANTON CHEKHOVMan is what he believes.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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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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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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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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