People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
~ Anton Chekhov

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If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
~ Anton Chekhov

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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
~ Anton Chekhov

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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
~ Anton Chekhov

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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
~ Anton Chekhov

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

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

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