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Indeed, in Russia there is a ...

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

Pharisaism, obtuseness and ty...

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

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Children are holy and pure. E...

Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

We old bachelors smell like d...

We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

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If you can't distinguish peop...

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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Country acquaintances are cha...

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

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Anyone who says the artist's ...

Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

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To live simply to die is by n...

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

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From here, far away, people s...

From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure.

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I have no will of my own. Nev...

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

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My mistress has come home; at...

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

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There ought to be a man with ...

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

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Your talent sets you apart: i...

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.

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I was so drunk the whole time...

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

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Eyes - the head's chief of po...

Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

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Critics are like horse-flies ...

Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

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Please, understand that your ...

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

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Wherever there is degeneratio...

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

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The time's come: there's a te...

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

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In Western Europe people peri...

In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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