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Anton Chekhov Quotes

Anton Chekhov quotes

Russian Playwright January 29, 1860 – July 14, 1904

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Anton Chekhov quote: "People who lead a lonely existence always have something on..."
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday."
There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday. Anton Chekhov
In the days when I didn't know people were reading and judging me, I wrote serenely, as if eating bliny; now I am afraid when I write. Anton Chekhov
A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is. Anton Chekhov
You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and..."
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "it's hard to avoid the suspicion that in seeing all the trees..."
it's hard to avoid the suspicion that in seeing all the trees I missed the wood Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered,..."
I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women? Anton Chekhov
Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are. Anton Chekhov
The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the..."
...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. Anton Chekhov
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "There is nothing new in art except talent."
There is nothing new in art except talent. Anton Chekhov
He keeps going, going, going on; his people groan and fall one after the other, but he keeps on going, going and in the end, perishes himself, but still remains the despot and tsar of the desert because the cross over his grave is visible to caravans thirty-forty miles away and reigns over the wasteland. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric."
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. Anton Chekhov

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