My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
ANTON CHEKHOVDo silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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