Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Man is what he believes.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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