If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOVFor God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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