Anton Chekhov Quotes, Heart Quotes, Thinking Quotes

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

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

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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

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And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

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Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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

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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

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To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

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