Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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 problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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 secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Medicine 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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