QUOTES by Anton Chekhov
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The life of a man is like a flower, blooming so gaily in a field. Then, along comes a goat, he eats it and the flower is gone!
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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
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One should not put a loaded rifle onto the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
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When a woman is plain, people say, 'What beautiful eyes you have, beautiful hair.
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..One has to be a mindless barbarian to burn such beauty in a stove, to destroy what we can not create..
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I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.
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I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.
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Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.
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One hundred years from now, the people who come after us, for whom our lives are showing the way--will they think of us kindly? Will they remember us with a kind word? I wish to God I could think so.
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We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams.
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Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.
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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.
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How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life!
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TRIGORIN Why do I hear a note of sadness that wrings my heart in this cry of a pure soul? If at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.
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Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
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My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness.
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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!" (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)
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A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?
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Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: “I am doing God’s will on earth.
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Shabelsky: Doctors are the same as lawyers, the sole difference being that lawyers only rob you, but doctors rob you and kill you too...
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She had a passionate longing for the garden, the darkness, the pure sky, the stars.
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There is no greater sorrow than to know another's secret when you cannot help them.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years
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When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.
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We all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.
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For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
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