Anton Chekhov Quotes, Country Quotes, Pride Quotes

From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure.

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By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

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It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

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There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

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It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

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I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

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The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

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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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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

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I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

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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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Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

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Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

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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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If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

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Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

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