Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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 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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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