Anton Chekhov Quotes, Time Quotes, Artist Quotes

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

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Brevity - the sister of talent.

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

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You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

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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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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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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

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I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

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If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

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An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

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

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By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

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we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

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