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> [I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/i-do-not-know-why-one-should-not-hunt-two-hares-even-in-the-literal/)

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> [It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/it-s-even-pleasant-to-be-sick-when-you-know-that-there-are-people-who/)

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> [We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/we-live-not-in-order-to-eat-but-in-order-not-to-know-what-we-feel/)

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> [You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/you-ask-me-what-life-is-that-s-like-asking-what-a-carrot-is-a-carrot/)

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> [Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/thought-and-beauty-like-a-hurricane-or-waves-should-not-know/)

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> [If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/if-you-wish-women-to-love-you-be-original-i-know-a-man-who-used-to/)

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> [Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/neither-i-nor-anyone-else-knows-what-a-standard-is-we-all-recognize-a/)

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> [When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/when-men-ask-me-how-i-know-so-much-about-men-they-get-a-simple-answer/)

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> [Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/sometimes-we-go-to-a-play-and-after-the-curtain-has-been-up-five/)

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> [Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/do-you-know-when-you-may-concede-your-insignificance-before-god-or/)

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> [Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-chekhov-saying-to-him-in-1899/)

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> [In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/in-a-century-or-two-or-in-a-millennium-people-will-live-in-a-new-way/)

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> [Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/perhaps-man-has-a-hundred-senses-and-when-he-dies-the-five-senses/)

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> [To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/to-a-chemist-nothing-on-earth-is-unclean-a-writer-must-be-as/)

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> [Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/not-everyone-knows-how-to-be-silent-or-to-leave-in-good-time-it/)

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> [He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/he-who-doesn-t-know-how-to-be-a-servant-should-never-be-allowed-to-be/)

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> [Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/critics-are-like-horse-flies-which-hinder-the-horses-in-their-plowing/)

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> [In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/in-two-or-three-hundred-years-life-on-earth-will-be-unimaginably/)

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> [It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/it-is-time-for-writers-to-admit-that-nothing-in-this-world-makes/)

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> [All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/all-i-wanted-was-to-say-honestly-to-people-have-a-look-at-yourselves/)

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> [In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/in-short-stories-it-is-better-to-say-not-enough-than-to-say-too-much/)

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> [Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/everything-is-good-in-due-measure-and-strong-sensations-know-not/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

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> [A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/a-man-and-a-woman-marry-because-both-of-them-do-not-know-what-to-do/)

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> [An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/an-enormously-vast-field-lies-between-god-exists-and-there-is-no-god/)

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> [Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/everyone-judges-plays-as-if-they-were-very-easy-to-write-they-don-t/)

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## Other authors on Knows

## More by Anton Chekhov

> [“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/using-vile-means-to-attain-worthy-ends-makes-the-ends-themselves-vile/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/if-ever-my-life-can-be-of-any-use-to-you-come-and-claim-it/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/there-are-still-many-more-days-of-failure-ahead-whole-seasons-of/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/but-here-was-all-the-timorousness-and-angularity-of-inexperienced/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/at-the-water-s-edge-barrels-of-pitch-blazed-like-huge-bonfires-their/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/anna-petrovna-never-talk-to-women-about-your-own-good-qualities-let/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/while-you-re-playing-cards-with-a-regular-guy-or-having-a-bite-to-eat/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/lebedev-france-has-a-clear-and-defined-policy-the-french-know-what/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/my-holy-of-holies-are-the-human-body-health-intelligence-talent/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/what-we-have-we-do-not-treasure-and-what-s-more-we-do-not-even-love-it/)

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> [No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/no-matter-how-corrupt-and-unjust-a-convict-may-be-he-loves-fairness/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/it-is-my-opinion-that-every-woman-can-be-a-writer/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/his-reading-suggested-a-man-swimming-in-the-sea-among-the-wreckage-of/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/experience-often-repeated-truly-bitter-experience-had-taught-him-long/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

> [“Why do you always wear black?” "I am mourning for my life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/why-do-you-always-wear-black-i-am-mourning-for-my-life/)

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