Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat a delight it is to respect people!
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Man is what he believes.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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