Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
ANTON CHEKHOVEvery person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Oh, 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.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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