You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
ANTON CHEKHOVJust as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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