Anton Chekhov Quotes, Monday Quotes

There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

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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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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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All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'

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Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

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Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

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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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It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

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I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

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It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

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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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A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

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If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

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