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Despite your best efforts, you...

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

There isn't a Monday that woul...

There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

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Your talent sets you apart: if...

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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Idea for a short story. The sh...

Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

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I'm the seagull. No, that's no...

I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

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People's destinies are so diff...

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boringЂ'they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance youЂ'you're one in a million. You're happyЂ'

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All I wanted was to say honest...

All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

When a person hasn't in him th...

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

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When one longs for a drink, it...

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

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He who desires nothing, hopes ...

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

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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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The happy man only feels at ea...

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

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Desription should be very brie...

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

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Man has been endowed with reas...

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

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Write about this man who, drop...

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

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These people have learned not ...

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.

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A litterateur is not a confect...

A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.

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[In] death at least there woul...

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

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Just as I shall lie alone in t...

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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I am now and have always been ...

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

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