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.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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