Anton Chekhov Quotes, God Quotes, Faith Quotes

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

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I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

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Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

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To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

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I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

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It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

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To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

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It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

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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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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

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And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

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I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

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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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Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

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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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Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

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