There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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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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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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