The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
ANTON CHEKHOVMoney, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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