Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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