If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
ANTON CHEKHOVNothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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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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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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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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