Write only of what is important and eternal.
ANTON CHEKHOVI expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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