Anton Chekhov Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Hands Quotes

While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.

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

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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

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Women can't forgive failure.

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I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

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[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

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To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

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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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There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

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

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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

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

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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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It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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

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