Anton Chekhov Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Silly Quotes

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

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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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This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

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Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

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A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

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

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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

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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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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

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