If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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