If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite only of what is important and eternal.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Man is what he believes.
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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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