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“Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Writers are as jealous as pigeons.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“An enormously vast field lies between “God exists” and “there is no God.” The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)