This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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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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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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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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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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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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