Anton Chekhov Quotes, People Quotes, Enough Quotes

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

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Even in Siberia there is happiness.

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You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

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Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

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Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

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An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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

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If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

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[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.

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The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

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When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

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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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The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

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Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

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In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

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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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