A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
ANTON CHEKHOVWisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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