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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
Anton Chekhov
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
Anton Chekhov
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
Anton Chekhov
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Chekhov
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Anton Chekhov
You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!
Anton Chekhov
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant.
Anton Chekhov
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
Anton Chekhov
A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.
Anton Chekhov
There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.
Anton Chekhov
Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
Anton Chekhov
Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.
Anton Chekhov
It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.
Anton Chekhov
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
Anton Chekhov
The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positiveā types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.
Anton Chekhov
How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.
Anton Chekhov
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.
Anton Chekhov
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
Anton Chekhov
If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
Anton Chekhov
In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.
Anton Chekhov
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