Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOVEach of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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