I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOVEven while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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