Anton Chekhov quotes - page 5

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me. (Anton Chekhov)
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail. View quote
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One must speak about serious things seriously. View quote
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The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring. View quote
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Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is. View quote
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest. View quote
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By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress. View quote
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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers. View quote
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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is. View quote
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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice. View quote
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Love is a scandal of the personal sort. (Anton Chekhov)
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle. View quote
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It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person. View quote
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We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of. View quote
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Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. View quote
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By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations. View quote
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Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier. View quote
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Great Jove angry is no longer Jove. View quote
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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state. View quote
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Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one. View quote
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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work. (Anton Chekhov)
To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow! View quote
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Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal. View quote
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Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time. View quote
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. View quote
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