Anton Chekhov Quotes, Writing Quotes, Important Quotes

Write only of what is important and eternal.

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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

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These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

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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.

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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

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Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

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I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

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Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.

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Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

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Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

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To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

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