The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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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 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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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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