Anton Chekhov Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Respect Quotes

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

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It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

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These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

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A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

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Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

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I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

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In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

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When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.

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A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

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Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

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Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

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I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

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From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure.

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