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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Antón Pávlovič Čéhov
Antón Pávlovich Chékhov
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You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
Anton Chekhov
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
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The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.
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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.
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Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.
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Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.
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In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.
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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: Don't forget that I made you happy.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.
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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
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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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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
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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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It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
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Life is a vexatious trap when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
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