People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOVI don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Man is what he believes.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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