We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOVI observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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