Anton Chekhov Quotes, Stars Quotes, Children Quotes

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

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Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

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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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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

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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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If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

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It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

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When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

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

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

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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

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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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I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

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