Want Quotes by Anton Chekhov

14 Want quotes by Anton Chekhov

Chekhov’s 14 brief yet potent statements about want capture his signature blend of melancholy and wry humor. They serve as a concise window into the human condition, perfect for a quick yet thoughtful read.

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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Anton Chekhov

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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

Anton Chekhov

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If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Anton Chekhov

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When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against…

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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it…

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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

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I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to…

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When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that…

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After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but…

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You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would…

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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything…

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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…

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This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything…

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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“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,…

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Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

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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…

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“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but…

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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 and falsity,…

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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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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are…

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“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”

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“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching…

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“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and…

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

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