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You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.
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Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist he must abandon the subjective line he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.
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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
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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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Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.
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You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
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I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.
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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?
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Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
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