If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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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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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Man is what he believes.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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