Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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