Anton Chekhov Quotes, Cry Quotes, Failing Quotes

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

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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 will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

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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 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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I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

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Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

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By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

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

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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 expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

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

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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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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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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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