People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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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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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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