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I do not know why one should ...

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

In order to cultivate yoursel...

In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will... Each hour is precious.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

Everyone judges plays as if t...

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

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He had two lives: one, open, ...

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

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A man can deceive his fiancee...

A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.

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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.

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Then I feel so happy and at t...

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

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Do you know when you may conc...

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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I agree that one can't dispen...

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

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To believe in God is not hard...

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

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There is no national science,...

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

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The more simply we look at ti...

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

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Whoever sincerely believes th...

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

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Do you remember you shot a se...

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

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It's worth living abroad to s...

It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

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I let myself go at the beginn...

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

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Those who come a hundred or t...

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

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I am dying. I haven't drunk c...

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

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

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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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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