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Love Quotes by Anton Chekhov

47 Love quotes by Anton Chekhov

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Chekhov calls the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom his holy of holies. He points out that we often don’t treasure what we already have, and we may even love a heavy stone that drags us down. He also says that shared hatred can bind people as tightly as love, friendship, or respect.

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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

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“Being in love shows a person how he ought to be.”

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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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Only one who loves can remember so well.

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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

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

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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who…

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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

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Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

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“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...”

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“she was sensual, like all cold people, as a rule--and we both made a show of being united by a passionate, mutual…

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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…

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“therefore the idea of the service of humanity, of brotherly love and the solidarity of mankind, is more and more dying out…

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“. . . who loved without any genuine feeling, with superfluous phrases, affectedly, hysterically, with an expression that suggested that it was…

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By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of…

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“NINA Think of me sometimes. TRIGORIN I shall never forget you. I shall always remember you as I saw you that bright…

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Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most…

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“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force…

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Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in…

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He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by…

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“Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home. Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out…

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“Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like…

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...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us…

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I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable…

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“Sasha: Men don't understand a lot of things. Every young girl is going to be drawn more to a failure than to…

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“When our eyes met in the compartment our spiritual fortitude deserted us both; I took her in my arms, she pressed her…

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“Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going into her room, the girl…

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Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

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“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.”

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It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone.…

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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

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It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

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“My holy of holies in the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love and absolute freedom-freedom from force and falsehood.”

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“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.”

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“Why do you always wear black?” "I am mourning for my life.”