Anton Chekhov Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

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In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

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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 more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

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To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

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God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

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

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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

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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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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

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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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What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

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