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There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
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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.
Anton Chekhov
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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
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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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In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn’t yet appeared, 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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Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
Anton Chekhov -
I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it’s tobacco, then let it be tobacco.
Anton Chekhov -
We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well.
Anton Chekhov
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It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don’t just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.
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'Yes, that's how it is, child. He who works, he who is patient is the superior.'
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The more refined the more unhappy.
Anton Chekhov -
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don't be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.
Anton Chekhov