You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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