Anton Chekhov Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Frustration Quotes

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

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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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I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

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To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

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People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

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Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

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It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

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Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

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What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

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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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If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

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Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

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That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

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I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

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In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

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I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

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