Anton Chekhov Quotes, Love Quotes, Respect Quotes

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

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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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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

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To advise is not to compel.

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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

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There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

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

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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

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You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

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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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Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

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Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

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

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What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

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The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

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Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

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