All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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 task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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