CHEKHOV

Although death is terrifying, knowing that you are living to eternity without ever being able to die is even more terrifying.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out. (1. exhaust, tire, 2. destroy through use).

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work

If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.

Man is what he believes.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
 
They say, tell me what you've read and I'll tell you who you are.

We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams. * Display, make visible: mostrar; He was upset and it showed: molesto y se notaba. Deberiamos pintar la vida no como es, ni como ...

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Brevity is the sister of talent. (from Shakespeare's Hamlet's famous line, "Brevity is the soul of wit" / 'To be or not to be.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Existence is tedious, anyway.

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

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

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!