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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
— Anton Chekhov
I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.
— Anton Chekhov
There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.
— 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
Being in love shows a person how he ought to be.
— Anton Chekhov
I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.
— Anton Chekhov
When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.
— 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
Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.
— Anton Chekhov
I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?
— Anton Chekhov
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
— Anton Chekhov
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
— Anton Chekhov
no family can get on without women to help; that in every family, poor or rich, there are and must be nurses, either relations or hired. "No,
— Anton Chekhov
Oh, how people love to disappear from your life. Especially when you already got attached to them.
— Anton Chekhov
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
— Anton Chekhov
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
— Anton Chekhov
What a delight it is to respect people!
— Anton Chekhov
Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.
— Anton Chekhov
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.
— Anton Chekhov
If my life can ever be of any use to you, come and take it.
— Anton Chekhov
The health of domestic animals ought to be as well cared for as the health of human beings.
— Anton Chekhov
Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.
— Anton Chekhov
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.
— Anton Chekhov
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
— Anton Chekhov
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
— Anton Chekhov
In spite of his clumsiness and rough manner, he was a peaceable man, of infinite kindliness and goodness of heart, always ready to be of use.
— Anton Chekhov
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
— Anton Chekhov
I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.
— Anton Chekhov
Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
— Anton Chekhov
Why, if ever again... you dare to mention a single word... about my mother... I shall send you flying downstairs!" "What's
— Anton Chekhov
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.
— Anton Chekhov
And the man who seeks salvation in change of place like a migrating bird would find nothing anywhere, for all the world is alike to him.
— Anton Chekhov
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
— Anton Chekhov
Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.
— Anton Chekhov
To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic
— Anton Chekhov
Ne has to be a mindless barbarian to burn such beauty in a stove, to destroy what we can not create..
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[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers
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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
— Anton Chekhov
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
— Anton Chekhov
HELENA. What a fine day! Not too hot. [A pause.]VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself. — Anton Chekhov
One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
— Anton Chekhov
I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.
— Anton Chekhov
To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
— Anton Chekhov
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
— Anton Chekhov
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.
— Anton Chekhov
there--hang analysis! Why, is a man likely to interpret his sensations when he is flying head foremost from
— 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
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
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.
— Anton Chekhov
Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.
— 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
To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead ...
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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
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
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
If I were to be asked: What now constitutes the main and fundamental feature of your existence? I would answer: Insomnia.
— Anton Chekhov
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
— Anton Chekhov
When a person expends the least possible amount of energy on a certain act, that is grace.
— Anton Chekhov
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
— Anton Chekhov
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand ... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
— 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
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
— Anton Chekhov
He did nothing and knew how to do nothing. He
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Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.
— Anton Chekhov
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, becauseI don't know why. — Anton Chekhov
It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
— Anton Chekhov
I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.
— Anton Chekhov
Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
— Anton Chekhov
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
— Anton Chekhov
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
— Anton Chekhov
If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.
— Anton Chekhov
And how awful it is not to have any opinions!
— Anton Chekhov
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
— Anton Chekhov
A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.
— Anton Chekhov
So had begun and had ended a sincere effort to be of public service on the part of a well-intentioned but unreflecting and over-comfortable
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To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!
— Anton Chekhov
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
— Anton Chekhov
To advise is not to compel.
— 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
It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
— Anton Chekhov