Anton Chekhov Quotes, Grace Quotes, Action Quotes

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

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A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

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A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

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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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To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

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An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

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I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

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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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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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

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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

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