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Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.
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
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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.
Anton Chekhov
If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.
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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
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Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it
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It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.
Anton Chekhov
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
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It's not a matter of old or new forms a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
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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.
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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov
A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.
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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.
Anton Chekhov
I'm in mourning for my life.
Anton Chekhov
When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.
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Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
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