Anton Chekhov Quotes, Destiny Quotes, People Quotes

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

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

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Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?

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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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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

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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.

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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

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My holy of holies is the human body.

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I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

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

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Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.

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In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.

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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

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