Anton Chekhov Quotes, Lying Quotes, People Quotes

To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

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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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To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!

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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

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Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

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

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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

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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 swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

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

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Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

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There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

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There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

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I'm in mourning for my life.

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It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

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