Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
ANTON CHEKHOVMedicine 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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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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.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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