Anton Chekhov Quotes, God Quotes, Faith Quotes

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

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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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There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

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In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

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It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

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This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

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And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

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

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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

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You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

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I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

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

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