It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
ANTON CHEKHOVWomen can’t forgive failure.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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