If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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