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.
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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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