Anton Chekhov Quotes, Feelings Quotes, Pieces Quotes

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

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

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By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

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I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

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The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

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How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

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You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

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Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

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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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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.

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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

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God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

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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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