Anton Chekhov Quotes, Lying Quotes, Years Quotes

Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

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I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

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It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

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Only entropy comes easy.

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Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

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

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Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget that I made you happy.

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When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

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

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

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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.

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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

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

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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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

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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

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