Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
ANTON CHEKHOVOnly during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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