There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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.
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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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