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

“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
― Anton 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

“And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

“If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.”
― Anton Chekhov, Ivanov

“If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.”
― Anton Chekhov

“The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Man is what he believes.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Люди, имеющие служебное, деловое отношение к чужому страданию, например судьи, полицейские, врачи, с течением времени, в силу привычки, закаляются до такой степени, что хотели бы, да не могут относиться к своим клиентам иначе, как формально; с этой стороны они ничем не отличаются от мужика, который на задворках режет баранов и телят и не замечает крови. (Иван Дмитрич)”
― Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

“My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.”
― Anton Chekhov

“In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Seagull