Anton Chekhov Quotes, Literature Quotes

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

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To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

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Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

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

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But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

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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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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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You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

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When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

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

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

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There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

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