People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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 secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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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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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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