Anton Chekhov Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Champion Quotes

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

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It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

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...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

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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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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

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Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

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Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

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And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

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I'm in mourning for my life.

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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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When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

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Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

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Only one who loves can remember so well.

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