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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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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.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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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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Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.
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A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.
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I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.
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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
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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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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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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.
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The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. 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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.
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[In] death at least there would be one profit it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
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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.
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