Anton Chekhov Quotes, Real Quotes, Mirages Quotes

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

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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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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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The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.

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In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

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Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.

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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

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An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

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Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

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One must speak about serious things seriously.

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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

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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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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

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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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