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

Anton Chekhov

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Eyes God Goodness Judgment Success
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
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
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Life Love Myself Need Yourself
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
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
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Behavior Happiness Oneself
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Afraid Artist Deep Desire Hope
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
ANTON CHEKHOV

God Government Himself Return Right
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself

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