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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
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
A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
— Anton Chekhov
In twenty years I've found only one intelligent man in the whole town, and he's mad.
— 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
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
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 upno more flower. — Anton Chekhov
And a pretty wife involves a great deal of anxiety.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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— 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
True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know.
— Anton Chekhov
