I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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