The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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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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