The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
ANTON CHEKHOVWomen can’t forgive failure.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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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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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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