The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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