Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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