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.
ANTON CHEKHOVOnly one who loves can remember so well.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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