To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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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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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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