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.
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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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