Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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