You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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