If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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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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Each 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.
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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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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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