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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I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

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A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

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There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

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There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

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Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.

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You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

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To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

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The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

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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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Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

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

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