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Quotes from Note-Book of Anton Chekhov — Anton Chekhov

1860–1904 Russia

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If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

As I shall lie in the grave alone, so in fact I live alone.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

The more refined the more unhappy.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

Our self-esteem and conceit are European, but our culture and actions are Asiatic.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean—that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses—that is science.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don't be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issues not from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anton Chekhov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.