The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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 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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