I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
ANTON CHEKHOVI can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite only of what is important and eternal.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen 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 CHEKHOVIn all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
ANTON CHEKHOVA man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOVI expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
ANTON CHEKHOVFaith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOVExquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOVMan is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOVThere are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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