A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
ANTON CHEKHOVI can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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 there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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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