In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat a delight it is to respect people!
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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