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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

Anton Chekhov

If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOV

Death Drink Listening Myself
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man
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 CHEKHOV

Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Adventure Beautiful Body Conscious Life Live Oneself
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Alone Mad Marriage Togetherness Woman
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Death Difference Doctor Lawyer Perspective Rob Yourself
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
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 CHEKHOV

Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Answer Artist Question Role

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