Anton Chekhov Quotes, Humans Quotes

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

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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.

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...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

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I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

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By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

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It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.

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

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

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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

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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.

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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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

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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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What a delight it is to respect people!

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