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.
ANTON CHEKHOVI can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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