Anton Chekhov Quotes, Feelings Quotes, Pieces Quotes

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

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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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Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

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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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I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

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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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Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

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Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

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He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

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We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

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Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

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One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

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Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.

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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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Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

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