Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVNot one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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