What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Man is what he believes.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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