Brevity – the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOVA woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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