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I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants. — Anton Chekhov

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

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

What a fine weather today! Can't choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. — 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

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy. — 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

Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not
and decides to take offence. — 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

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand. — 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.. — Anton Chekhov

Nobody asks her not to understand! It's a lesson for these foreigners! — Anton Chekhov

[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers — Anton Chekhov

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

What's the point? To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for a narrow-minded or embittered man. — 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

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

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

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 ... — 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

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

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

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

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

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, because
I 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

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard. — Anton Chekhov

You know I can't stand Shakespeare's plays, but yours are even worse. — Leo Tolstoy

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

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man. — 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

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter — Anton Chekhov

It's hard to avoid the suspicion that in seeing all the trees I missed the wood — 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 — Anton Chekhov

To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling! — Anton Chekhov

You don't believe in your right to it; and here now you can't sleep. — Anton Chekhov

And therefore I should be very desirous to be united in the bonds of Hymen — 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