Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOVBetter a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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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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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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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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