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Anton Chekhov Quotes

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Russian Playwright January 29, 1860 – July 14, 1904

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Anton Chekhov quote: "Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a..."
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have..."
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' Anton Chekhov
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. Anton Chekhov
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get... Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible."
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for..."
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're..."
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. Anton Chekhov
In the past when I was younger my friends and relations had known what to do with me: some of them used to advise me to volunteer for the army, others to get a job in a pharmacy, and others in the telegraph department; now that I am over twenty-five, that grey hairs are beginning to show on my temples, and that I have been already in the army, and in a pharmacy, and in the telegraph department, it would seem that all earthly possibilities have been exhausted, and people have given up advising... Anton Chekhov
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And... Anton Chekhov
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "Only during hard times do people come to understand how..."
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "There are a great many opinions in the world, and a good half..."
There are a great many opinions in the world, and a good half of them are held by people who have never been in trouble! Anton Chekhov
Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven. Anton Chekhov
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
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

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