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All Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
- The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
- All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
- Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it…
- All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
- Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing…
- Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I…
- Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are…
- People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance…
- All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important…
- 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…
- I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield…
- Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the…
- The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the…
- An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who says that the…
- When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already…
- What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle…
- And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage.…
- I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
- ...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was.…
- 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…
- He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom…
- There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries.…
- This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has…
- In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle