The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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 world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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