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 CHEKHOVIf I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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