Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite only of what is important and eternal.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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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 can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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