Anton Chekhov Quotes, Death Quotes, Depressing Quotes

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

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

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To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

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A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

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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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Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

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Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

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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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I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

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The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

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Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

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It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

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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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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

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I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

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And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

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

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