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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work. — Anton Chekhov

Posterity will say as usual: In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past. — Anton Chekhov

That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be. — Anton Chekhov

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone. — Anton Chekhov

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics. — Anton Chekhov

Jews have sprung up and are amassing money, — Anton Chekhov

I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands. — Anton Chekhov

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring. — Anton Chekhov

MEDVIEDENKO
Why do you always wear mourning?
MASHA
I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy. — Anton Chekhov

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious. — Anton Chekhov

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life. — Anton Chekhov

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. — Anton Chekhov

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm. — Anton Chekhov

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

In twenty years I've found only one intelligent man in the whole town, and he's mad. — Anton Chekhov

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. — Anton Chekhov

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit. — Anton Chekhov

To advise is not to compel. — Anton Chekhov

Where is the law that says people should do as they please? — Anton Chekhov

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. — Anton Chekhov

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority. — Anton Chekhov

Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory. — Anton Chekhov

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more. — Anton Chekhov

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. — Anton Chekhov

I'm in mourning for my life. — Anton Chekhov

If you want women to love you, then don't be cross in front of them and don't go all pompous ... -Anna Petrovna in Ivanov — Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache ... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation. — Anton Chekhov

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich. — Anton Chekhov

To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead ... — Anton Chekhov

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

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. — Anton Chekhov

My holy of holies in the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love and absolute freedom-freedom from force and falsehood. — Anton Chekhov

Perhaps a man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five known to us are destroyed and the remaining ninety-five are left alive. — Anton Chekhov

And if any of our dear ones die, it must be because it is the will of God, so we ought have fortitude and bear it submissively. — Anton Chekhov

However you feed a wolf she will always look toward the forest — Anton Chekhov

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

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. — Anton Chekhov

you devil's doll! — Anton Chekhov

This life of ours ... human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up
no more flower. — Anton Chekhov

And a pretty wife involves a great deal of anxiety. — Anton Chekhov

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs. — Anton Chekhov

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. — Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. — Anton Chekhov

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face — Anton Chekhov

astonished-looking eyes. — Anton Chekhov

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations. — Anton Chekhov

there--hang analysis! Why, is a man likely to interpret his sensations when he is flying head foremost from — Anton Chekhov

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all. — Anton Chekhov

can a man with those dull eyes, with that self-satisfied complacency, feel anything?" "I — Anton Chekhov

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. — Anton Chekhov

There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune. — Anton Chekhov

His soul is still hovering here, near his body," says the young man. "It does not depart from the body for three days. — Anton Chekhov

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die. — Anton Chekhov

The brother and sister talked till midnight without understanding each other. — Anton Chekhov

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry. — Anton Chekhov

Though my fortune is not large, yet I am in a position to support a beloved being and children at my side. — Anton Chekhov

Your insincerity is natural and in the order of things. If people agreed together and suddenly became sincere, — Anton Chekhov

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

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

The air of one's native country is the most healthy air. — Anton Chekhov

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. — Anton Chekhov

blind love finds ideal beauty everywhere. — Anton Chekhov

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time. — Anton Chekhov

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it. — Anton Chekhov

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. — Anton Chekhov

He did nothing and knew how to do nothing. He — Anton Chekhov

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

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

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. — Anton Chekhov

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' — Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. — Anton Chekhov

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. — Anton Chekhov

You will not become a saint through other people's sins. — Anton Chekhov

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me. — Anton Chekhov

And really is there anything in the world more captivating than a beautiful young mother with a healthy baby in her arms? 'What — Anton Chekhov

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

the standard of culture is falling, — Anton Chekhov

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. — Anton Chekhov

Let's drop the philosophy! — Anton Chekhov

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

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy. — Anton Chekhov

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits? — Anton Chekhov

If I were to be asked: What now constitutes the main and fundamental feature of your existence? I would answer: Insomnia. — Anton Chekhov

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. — Anton Chekhov

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about. — Anton Chekhov

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

When a person expends the least possible amount of energy on a certain act, that is grace. — Anton Chekhov

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is. — Anton Chekhov

Yelena. What a lovely day! ... Not to hot either.
Voynitski. It would even be pleasant to hang oneself on a day like this. — Anton Chekhov

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom! — Anton Chekhov

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man. — Anton Chekhov

We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams. — Anton Chekhov

contemptuous cough — Anton Chekhov

Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system. Raskolnikov — Anton Chekhov

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

True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know. — Anton Chekhov

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone. — Anton Chekhov

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

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall. — Anton Chekhov