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 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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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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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 secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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