When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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