When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
ANTON CHEKHOVMedicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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