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Quotations of selected author

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

1. "Writers are as jealous as pigeons."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Envy

2. "Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport."

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Education

3. "We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."

categories: Life and Death -:- Education

4. "Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

5. "Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat."

categories: Human -:- Science and Technology

6. "Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric."

source: "Gooseberries"

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Richness and Money

7. "Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds."

categories: Truth and Falsity

8. "Literature is my legal wife and medicine my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology

9. "If you fear loneliness, then don't get married."

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Marriage

10. "I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky."

categories: Marriage

11. "Everyone has the same God; only people differ."

categories: God and Religion

12. "Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die."

categories: Life and Death -:- Time and Passing

13. "A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first, she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend."

source: "Uncle Vanya"

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Woman and Man


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