Anton Chekhov Quotes, Two Quotes, Laughing Quotes

[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.

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Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

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Brevity - the sister of talent.

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Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

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

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If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

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If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

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

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All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.

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This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

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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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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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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

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A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

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Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.

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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

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