Anton Chekhov Quotes, Daughter Quotes, Eye Quotes

A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.

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Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

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[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

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

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

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Life has gone by as if I never lived

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I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

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Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

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The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

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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.

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My holy of holies is the human body.

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

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A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

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

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

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In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.

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Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.

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Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

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