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Famous Anton Chekhov Quotes
“Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.”
“If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure”
“Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.”
“If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.”
“Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.”
“To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face”
“Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it”
“Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.”
“It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.”
“I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious”
“In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.”
“It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.”
“My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.”
“A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.”
“Life has gone by as if I never lived”
“Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.”
“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”
“Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.”
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
“When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.”