Anton Chekhov Quotes, Spring Quotes, Mean Quotes

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

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I'm in mourning for my life.

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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

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I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

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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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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

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It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

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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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...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

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I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

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In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength.

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

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Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

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We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

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