If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
ANTON CHEKHOVOh, 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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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.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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