Anton Chekhov Quotes, History Quotes, Battle Quotes

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

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In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

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One must speak about serious things seriously.

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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

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

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Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

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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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If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

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we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

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But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

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It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

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

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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

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In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

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Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

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

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You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

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That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

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