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.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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