A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’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.
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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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