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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Anton Chekhov
Pain, Mean, Modern Life
'The Cherry Orchard' (1904) act 2

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

Anton Chekhov
Pain, Love You, Heart
Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2866, Delphi Classics

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

Anton Chekhov
Pain, Grief, Serenity
Letter to K.S. Barantsevich, March 3, 1888.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

Anton Chekhov
Life, Pain, Usual
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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