Anton Chekhov Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Rifles Quotes

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

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Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

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

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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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

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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

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To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

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He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

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

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The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

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I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

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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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Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

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