When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
ANTON CHEKHOVEveryone has the same God; only people differ.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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