Anton Chekhov Quotes, Country Quotes, Air Quotes

The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.

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I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

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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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If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

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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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

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Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

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

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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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[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

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A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

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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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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

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