Anton Chekhov Quotes, People Quotes, Understanding Quotes

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

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

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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

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It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.

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[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

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The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

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What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.

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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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If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

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If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

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Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

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It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

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The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

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Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

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