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.
ANTON CHEKHOVCalculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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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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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Man is what he believes.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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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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