If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVBetter a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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.
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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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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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