A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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