This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
ANTON CHEKHOVWomen can’t forgive failure.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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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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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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