An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Man is what he believes.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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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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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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