Anton Chekhov Quotes, Death Quotes, Lying Quotes

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

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How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

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I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

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I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

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You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

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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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Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

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If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

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When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

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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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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

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In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

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An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

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