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All great sages are as despoti...

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

The more elevated a culture, t...

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

Sports are positively essentia...

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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I'm in mourning for my life....

I'm in mourning for my life.

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Great Jove angry is no longer ...

Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.

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There are no small number of p...

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

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The more simply we look at tic...

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

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In my opinion it is harmful to...

In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

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Despicable means used to achie...

Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

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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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Women can't forgive failure....

Women can't forgive failure.

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Silence accompanies the most s...

Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

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Each of us is full of too many...

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

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Death can only be profitable: ...

Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

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Moscow is a city that has much...

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

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[Ognev] recalled endless, heat...

[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.

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We live not in order to eat, b...

We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

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By nature servile, people atte...

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

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Do you know when you may conce...

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

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In Western Europe people peris...

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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