Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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.
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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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