If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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