Anton Chekhov Quotes, Nature Quotes, Freedom Quotes

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

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I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

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If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

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Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

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

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When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.

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It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

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Brevity - the sister of talent.

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

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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

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It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

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