The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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 role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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 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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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