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There will come a time when e...

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

Posterity will say as usual: ...

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

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Sometimes we go to a play and...

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

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A grimy fly can soil the enti...

A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

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Is it our job to judge? The g...

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

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Dear, sweet, unforgettable ch...

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

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I can't accept "our nervous a...

I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

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If I were asked to chose betw...

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

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Dear, sweet, unforgettable ch...

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

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Sports are positively essenti...

Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.

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If you cry ''Forward'' you mu...

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

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When you're thirsty and it se...

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

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If in the first act you have ...

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

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To describe drunkenness for t...

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

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You are right in demanding th...

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

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God's world is a good place. ...

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

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It is always "Youth, youth," ...

It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

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I was oppressed with a sense ...

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

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All the great sages are as de...

All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.

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Oh, I don't object, of course...

Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.

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