Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOVOnly one who loves can remember so well.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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