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.
ANTON CHEKHOVOnly one who loves can remember so well.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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