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You ask 'What is life?' That is the same as asking 'What is a carrot?' A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible bo...

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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 ...

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists e...

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much bette...

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Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of t...

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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Tell mother that however dogs and samovars might behave themselves, winter comes after summer, old age after youth, and misfortune follows hap...

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Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth....

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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and ...

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Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: 'Don't for...

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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I've thought about how, were we to suddenly receive the freedom about which we talk so much when we spar with one another, we would not know w...

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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why...

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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

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It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displa...

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It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick a...

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yet appeared, h...

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If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I'm in mourning for my life.

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation...

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov