Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
ANTON CHEKHOVEverything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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