A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
ANTON CHEKHOVA woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
ANTON CHEKHOVA good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOVI observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVEverything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVOh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe more refined one is, the more unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOVLife is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
ANTON CHEKHOVBetter a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
ANTON CHEKHOVWe shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOVBetter to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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