727 Quotes by Anton Chekhov

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    When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.

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    My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.

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    If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter.

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    To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

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    What’s the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

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    But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: “My work is literature.”

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    For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

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    To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face.

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