For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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