Russian - Dramatist | January 29, 1860 - July 15, 1904
There is nothing new in art except talent.
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.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
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How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science.
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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.
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