A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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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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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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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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