If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
ANTON CHEKHOVEvery person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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