If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
ANTON CHEKHOVKnowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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