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.
ANTON CHEKHOVWisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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