Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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