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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

Anton Chekhov

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
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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Follow Friendship Man Stage Woman
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Earth Life Nature Tree
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Future Hope Past Saint Sin
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Money Person
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 CHEKHOV

Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Alcohol Bed Death Lying
Only one who loves can remember so well.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Love Oneself Relationship Remember
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Discipline Goodness People Precise
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work

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