Anton Chekhov Quotes, Humans Quotes

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

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

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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

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There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

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That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

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Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

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I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

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I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Life has gone by as if I never lived

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

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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

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