Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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