The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
ANTON CHEKHOVEven while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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 role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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