Anton Chekhov Quotes, Circumstances Quotes, Confluence Quotes

There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

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The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

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I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

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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!

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Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.

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In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

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The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

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A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

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Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

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Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.

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Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

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There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

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Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

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