There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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