I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
ANTON CHEKHOVA good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Only one who loves can remember so 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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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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