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I expect I shall be a student ...

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

Never bring a cannon on stage ...

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

A tree is beautiful, but what'...

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

I swear fearfully at the conve...

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

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The critics suppose that it is...

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

If you ever have need of my li...

If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

When one sees one of the roman...

When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

An enormously vast field lies ...

An enormously vast field lies between 'God exists' and 'there is no God.' The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

To regard one's immortality as...

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

Life is a vexatious trap; when...

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

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While you're playing cards wit...

While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

Thought and beauty, like a hur...

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

Exquisite nature, daydreams, a...

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

There are people whom even chi...

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

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I would like to be a free arti...

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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It doesn't matter that your pa...

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

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Children are holy and pure. Ev...

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.

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Life is difficult for those wh...

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

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When a person doesn't understa...

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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One had better not rush, other...

One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

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