Anton Chekhov Quotes, Grief Quotes, Heart Quotes

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

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Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

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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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..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

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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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Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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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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I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

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I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

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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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This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

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

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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

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