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.
ANTON CHEKHOVDoctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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