Anton Chekhov Quotes, Lonely Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

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A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

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You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

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When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

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There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

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

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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

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Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone?

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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

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Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

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