Anton Chekhov Quotes, Love Quotes, Respect Quotes

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

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If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

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For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

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I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

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If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

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Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget that I made you happy.

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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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Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

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You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

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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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Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

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