We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOVI expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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