The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates 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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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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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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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