Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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 aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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