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“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
― A.P. Chekhov

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”
― Anton Chekhov

“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
― Anton Chekhov

“If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.”
― Anton Chekhov, Notebook of Anton Chekhov

“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.”
― Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”
― Anton Pavlovič Čechov

“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...”
― Anton Chekhov

“The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
― Anton Chekhov

“I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.”
― Anton Chekhov

“If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

“I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.”
― Anton Chekhov

“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Portable Chekhov

“..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.”
― Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

“Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.”
― Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.”
― Anton Chekhov

“I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.”
― Anton Chekhov

“There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!”
― Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy