Anton Chekhov Quotes, Execution Quotes, Prison Quotes

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

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An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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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 am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

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The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

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If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

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

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

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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

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Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

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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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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

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When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

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