Anton Chekhov Quotes

To 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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

exchange Prediction
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Realization
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Unity
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Calculation Oneself
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOV

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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.
ANTON CHEKHOV
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Original

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