Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOVAny idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Man is what he believes.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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