Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
ANTON CHEKHOVDon’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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