The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Man is what he believes.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in 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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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