Anton Chekhov Quotes

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• Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
• Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
• If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
• The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
• We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
• People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
• Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
• I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
• When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
• 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…
• 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.
• There is nothing new in art except talent.
• If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
• Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
• Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
• Man is what he believes.
• Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

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