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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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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I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

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There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

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Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

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I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

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If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

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

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I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

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Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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My holy of holies is the human body.

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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

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By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

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

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